A Recipe for Disaster.

Matt had another Birthday! They just keep coming!!!! And in 6 months I will join him at this ripe old age. Well, Anyone who knows Matt knows he LOVES ICE CREAM!!!!! He always says Quantity is better than Quality. (Although quality is pretty good too) One of Matt's goals is to have a soft serve ice cream machine in our home. But since $8000.00 is not readily available and probably never will be....I found this one to hold him over. He somehow found out about it and couldn't wait even just one day to get it crankin. So the night before his Birthday, I gave into his persistence. This is where the title of this blog post comes into play. I mixed up the milk and cream and sugar, stirred it together and dumped it into the soft serve machine. I then licked the spoon and it tasted like garlic. Then I smelled the milk....and it smelled like garlic. I don't know if the milk was going bad, or why it smelled and tasted the way it did, but I hoped that it would magically turn yummy as it tuned into ice-cream. Well... long story short, it never turned into ice-cream. Matt was super bummed and so we decided to dump the mixture into a bowl and try it again tomorrow. As we pulled the bowl out, we didn't think about the hole at the bottom of the bowl that allows the ice cream to be dispensed out as soft-serve and it all went pouring out everywhere. Matt then went from bummed to ticked off at himself, for "ruining" his new soft serve ice cream machine. I got things all cleaned up and luckily had a carton of ice cream to help smooth things over with the whole miss hap. But to make it all better, we had take two on his actual birthday. This time we used a fresh new bottle of Milk, Cream and Sugar. And this time I actually read the recipe and mixed the mixture with the electric mixerr for two minutes, as opposed to swishing it with a spoon a couple of times. We let it mix for 20 min and then it was the moment of truth!!!!!! Drummer Roll............ and we have soft serve!!! The kids loved "serving" themselves and choosing the mix in they wanted. (this machine adds in a mix in as you dispense the ice cream. Any ways super fun machine and it turned out to be a great birthday for Matt after all. Oh and did I mention the Carrot Cake I made was simply Heaven!!! Don't forget to keep scrolling down to read about our Thanksgiving.